Buttonhole construction



April 20, 1954 N. BUFARDECI 2,675,560

BUTTONHOLE CONSTRUCTION Filed Sept. 29, 1952 IN V EN TOR.

Patented Apr. 20, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BUTTONHOLECONSTRUCTION Nunci Bufardeci, Oakland, Calif.

Application September 29, 1952, Serial No. 312,013

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to improvements in buttonhole and pocket edgingconstruction.

The principal object of this invention is to provide a buttonhole orpocket hole in a fabric such as a garment, which will have a pleasingappearance.

A further object is to provide means for producing buttonholes and thelike, all of which are uniform in appearance and strong, having a rolledappearance, and one which will not get out of shape.

A further object is to provide buttonhole openings and the like whichmay be formed in any type of material be it thin or thick.

A still further object is to provide buttonhole openings and the likewherein different colored materials may be employed, if so desired.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of thefollowing description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and inwhich like numbers are employed to designate like parts throughout thesame.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a piece of fabric having my buttonholematerial attached thereto;

Fig. 2 is a View similar to Fig. 1, showing the binding after beingsplit and turned through a slit in the fabric;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fi 2, looking at the reverse side of thematerial and showing the finished product;

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view take on the line i-- i of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional View similar to Fig. 4, showing the materialand binding cut;

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view taken on the line 66 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing the manner of attaching alining or pocket to the binding; and

Fig. 8 is a View similar to Fig. 6, showing the use of cords only.

In the making of openings in material, such as the buttonhole openingsor pocket openings as found in garments, it has been customary to makewhat is commonly known as tailored openings; that is, the material isslit where the opening is to be placed and then a separate piece ofmaterial is bound around the edge so as to form a piping which producesa neat appearance of the opening.

Such bindings of necessity must be hand sewn and consequently they areexpensive to make, and at the same time, due to the hand work, there isnot the evenness such as is the result of machine stitching.

Applicant has devised a method of making buttonholes through the use ofa foot and folder as shown in Patent No. 2,607,308 of August 19, 1952,wherein a flat piece of tape is used. Applicants improvement in thepresent instance is to employ the same method of procedure with theexception that he uses a single piece of tape having formed along itsmargins a cord-like head, or by employing single cords as shown in Fig.8.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein for the purpos of illustration isshown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 5 designates apiece of fabric in which the buttonhole or pocket opening is to beformed.

lhe procedure is to first mark the point where the material is to beslit, which is indicated by the dotted line 5 in Fig. 1.

A binding strip 1, together with a tape 8 having beaded cordlike edges 9and II formed integral therewith is stitched to the reverse side of thefabric by two lines of stitching as shown at l2 and [3 adjacent thebeads, after which both the binding tape and fabric are out along theline 6 as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. By stitching the tape to the fabric 5and the binding strip 1, the beaded edges 9 and H of the tape 8 arealways retained in position, providing a definite reinforcement at theedges of the buttonhole or pocket. Thereafter the ends of th bindingmaterial and the tape are doubled over and forced through the opening soas to lie on the opposite side of the material, as shown in Fig. 6, thusproducing a rolled binding along both edges of the opening.

If the opening is to be a pocket, then the lining of the pocket is sewedto the free ends of the binding as shown in Fig. 7, the result beingthat a very pleasing appearance is created in a most economical anduniform manner.

It is to be understbod that the form of my invention herewith shown anddescribed is to be taken as a prefered example of the same and thatvarious changes relative to the material, size, shape and arrangement ofparts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of theinvention or the scope of the subjoined claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

In a buttonhole and pocket edging construction with a reinforcement atthe rolled abutting edges of the opening of such construction, a fabrichaving a slitted opening therein defined by spaced edge portions, abinding at each side of the opening and folded upon itself in adirection parallel with the opening with the folded edge portion of thebinding extending into said opening, a tape having a beaded edge withthe beaded edge positioned within the fold of the binding and with thebeaded edge of the tape at the fold of the binding and stitchingsecuring the folded portions of the binding with the tape therein tosaid fabric and the stitching being adjacent to the beaded edge of thetape to provide the reinforcement at the rolled abutting edges of theopening.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS NumberName Date 370,903 Stone Oct. 4, 1887 401,995 Bray Apr. 23, 13391,711,438 Yund Apr. 30, 1929 1,945,104 Zilinsky Jan. 30, 1934 2,529,072Bradford et al Nov. 7, 1950 2,607,308 Bufardeci Aug. 19, 1952

